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Rwanda: The African Development Fund commits $12 million to the rapid operationalization of the African Pharmaceutical Technology Foundation (APTF)

This foundation will act as a transparent intermediary that promote and negotiate with pharmaceutical multinationals and other countries in the South on sharing technology

The Board of Directors of the African Development Fund approved, in Abidjan on 27 February 2024, $11.96 million Grant to speed up the establishment of the African Pharmaceutical Technology Foundation, headquartered in Kigali, Rwanda. The financial support from the African Development Bank Group’s Regional Public Good window, together with a…

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Africa gets shot in the arm as African Pharmaceutical Technology Foundation gets underway

The European Investment Bank will be a partner in the Foundation’s regional biosimilars program for the production and innovation of relevant biosimilars in Africa

Africa’s efforts to build a resilient and self-reliant pharmaceutical industry for the continent advanced significantly today as the African Pharmaceutical Technology Foundation and the Rwandan Government signed the host country agreement paving the way for the Foundation’s operationalisation. The Foundation also signed a memorandum of understanding with the European Investment…

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Africa Visa Openness Index 2023: Progress in visa openness in Africa to ease cross border travel, boost trade, investment and regional integration

The Africa Visa Openness Index (AVOI) measures the extent to which African countries are open to visitors from other African countries

Rwanda becomes latest African country to offer visa-free access to all Africans; continent has bounced back from setbacks due to Covid-19 travel restrictions. Download document: https://apo-opa.co/3RegmVo Africa is making strides in its visa openness policies boding well for cross border travel, ease of movement and trade in 2024 and beyond. The…

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Rwanda: African Development Bank and the Africa Growing Together Fund (AGTF) mobilize USD 250 million to improve access to water and sanitation

The program’s four components provide for investments in water supply, as well as managing drainage basins, other investments in sanitation and program management, and support for the sector

The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) approved loans of almost USD 250 million to Rwanda in Abidjan on 1 December 2023, to improve the population’s access to water and sanitation services. The Sustainable Water Supply and Sanitation Program for Transformation, currently in Phase I, will…

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Public procurement: the African Public Procurement Network (APPN) adopts ten recommendations for an effective contribution to sustainable development in Africa

Boutheina Guermazi, Director for Regional Integration for Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, and North Africa at the World Bank, praised the participants’ efforts as a network

The third General Assembly of the African Public Procurement Network (APPN), which wrapped up in Abidjan on Thursday, adopted around ten recommendations for an effective contribution to sustainable development in Africa. This followed an earlier decision by participants from around 40 African countries to host the 2024 APPN General Assembly…

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African Development Bank commits over $23 million to Rwanda’s new Aviation Centre of Excellence

The project will boost Rwanda’s ambition to become a regional aviation hub and draw international investment from the aviation industry

The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (http://www.AfDB.org) has approved a $23.6 million loan for the construction and equipment of a new aviation training facility in the Rwandan capital, Kigali. The proposed Centre of Excellence for Aviation Skills (CEAS), including an aircraft hangar, will partner with higher…

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African Development Bank signs on partnership role in Women Deliver 2023 Conference Africa debut

The theme for this year’s conference is Spaces, Solidarity and Solutions: Enabling inclusive and co-created spaces that foster solidarity for sustainable solutions on gender equality

The African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org) has signed on as a partner of the Women Deliver 2023 Conference, a multi-sectoral gathering for advancing gender equality. The conference will debut in Africa, from 17 to 20 July in Kigali, Rwanda. The Bank has earmarked $300,000 to support the Women Deliver 2023 Conference,…

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Rwanda: African Development Bank Group commits $101 million to sustainable water and sanitation reforms

The Bank aims to accelerate Rwanda’s long-term development aspiration of becoming a middle-income economy by 2035

The Board of Directors of the African Development Fund has approved a $101 million loan to finance the Rwanda Sustainable and Resilient Water and Sanitation Program – a policy-based operation to support Rwanda’s water and sanitation sector. The program aims to improve water and sanitation governance and access to basic…

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Mobilising capital for Africa’s prosperity: Second Annual Meeting of Africa Sovereign Investors Forum highlights importance of strategic partnerships

ASIF was launched in the Moroccan capital Rabat in June 2022 by a group of ten African sovereign wealth funds

African Development Bank (http://www.AfDB.org) Vice President for Private Sector, Infrastructure, and Industrialisation Solomon Quaynor has called for unity to unlock the potential of African sovereign wealth funds, strategic investment funds, pensions, and life insurance assets, estimated at $2.3 trillion. Speaking at the Second Annual Meeting of the Africa Sovereign Investors…

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African Development Bank-funded project boosts universal access to water in Rwanda

The Kigali Bulk Water Supply Project was the Bank’s first private sector operation in Rwanda

Esther Mukantwali of Rwangara Village in Bugesera District, about 18 km south of Rwanda’s capital Kigali, used to wake up at 3 in the morning to trek for an hour to fetch water from a swamp.  The story is the same for 18-year-old Umuhoza Francine, who lives four km further…